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Democracy 💙🇺🇸. Former Bostonian living in Vegas. Beach goer. Travels, Sports, finance, Vegas, Hawaii, New England, wine, food.

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 25d

Woke up to 20,000 followers. Thank you to all and those starter packs including me. A bit about me for new followers. I am indeed Steve from Las Vegas. I'm a Biden Democrat. Been a political junkie for 4 plus decades. Been involved in campaigns. A donor. Never afraid to call a politician out. 1/5 🧵

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 3h

And how selfish 80 million non voters were/are

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 8h

That @JoeBiden put out this magnanimous & gracious statement AFTER all the horrible, dishonest things Trump said about Biden today, says so much about who Joe Biden is as a person. And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 3h

Blatant Trump corruption

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

You can bribe the president with $2,000,000,000 but he'll apparently still do that dipshit Alpha Male move where he suddenly yanks your arm in a handshake.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Trump greets the delegate from UAE, which put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company: “They got a lot of cash. Unlimited cash.”

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 3h

And the pro Pali cosplayers played right along. Sup Dearborn Heights. Sup @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

👇👇

VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 3h

So Trump has given the green light for Hamas to police Gaza. Who then executed 30 plus in the street. Day 1 🤦‍♂️ apple.news/AuJ4YJvDuS_q...

Hamas carries out wave of Gaza killings, citing crime and security concerns — Reuters

A greatly weakened Hamas has sought to reassert itself in Gaza since a ceasefire took hold, killing at least 33 people in a crackdown on groups that have tested its grip and appearing to get a U.S. no...

apple.news

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 5h

Loooooong overdue

Susan Pennington @spennington.bsky.social · 10h

JB Pritzker Is Looking At Prosecuting ICE Agents
www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/jb-pritzke...

JB Pritzker Is Looking At Prosecuting ICE Agents

Gov. JB Pritzker had a message for any ICE agents who are abusing their power in Illinois. Someday, the tables will turn, and they will be prosecuted.

www.thedailypoliticususa.com

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 5h

Parental stupidity

VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 6h

Just ordered Stan Getz from @thelostrecordings Can't wait to play them

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 6h

This is never not hilarious 😂

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6h

“We were attacked by ANTIFA!”

VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 6h

Tbh, I didn't last 2 years after Brady left 😂

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 6h

Been awhile 🤘

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 6h

Been awhile lol

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 6h

The New England Patriots are at the top of the AFC East 😎🏈

VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 7h

Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport correctly follows the law and refuse to air republican BS 🤘 www.8newsnow.com/news/politic...

www.8newsnow.com

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 7h

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 9h

Truth

NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

ICE said they were after “illegal immigrants.” Then they targeted anyone brown, anyone Black, the homeless, children and even journalists. And they’re just getting started. If you’re wondering how 1933 Germany felt—look around. You’re living it.

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 11h

There best be 1000s of ICE agent indictments

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1d

An autistic boy who reportedly functions "like a 4-year-old child" has been missing for over a week—and it turns out ICE grabbed him in the bathroom and NEVER TOLD THE FAMILY.
#cdnpoli

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 12h

Going on a decade of me saying this.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 12h

So Portland. Been twice. Had a blast both times

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Hundreds of Portland, Oregon, residents rode their bicycles in the nude to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s continuous threats to send the National Guard to the city.

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 12h

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 13h

Trump should be given credit for getting hostages released. It's ok to say it. Bibi is gonna screw up the rest imo. Trump still collapsing America. All can be true

VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 16h

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

Man, I fucking hate ICE.

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 17h

It's not really secret tbh

VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 17h

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

@acyn.bsky.social

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 17h

You know, like Jesus preached

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 @vegassteve702.bsky.social · 17h

Typical Republican. "Now that it's happened to me......"

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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